Modern football

[McRamFan]

On ‎21‎/‎05‎/‎2016 at 17:29, JW37 said:

Ridiculous prices.

TV changing kick-off times/fixture dates.

Less atmosphere.

Pundits/commentators crying over a pitch invasion.

The FA Cup final with some sort of bulls|hit Super Bowl esc performance.

And that's just today.

That is only the start.

Can see pressure from advertising to have 3 x 30mins.

No live football on BBC ITV C4 etc and very restricted highlights.

It will implode, just after every penny has been rinsed from it by people like Murdoch imho.

[Day]

Football will never implode, will never never never ever ever. No way Pedro.

Football has changed, it's more expensive to watch, true, it's also more expensive to smoke, drink, eat, put fuel in your car. That's life. 

For all the hate Murdoch get's he has made football more accessible and increased audiences worldwide. You would never have been able to watch the likes of Barca, Bayern, Dortmund etc. in the league before. I can sit in Grimsby and watch the goals a few minutes after they go in during midweek games, Saturday I have highlights within the hour. If we go up, a couple hours after we will have the red button to watch extended highlights of each game.  

Football wasn't invented in 92, Murdoch's a tosser, take me back to the days where I could only read about the goals in the Green blah blah, yet everyone still makes the most of his content, looking for streams because the demand is there and people love it.

Take Sky Sports away now, remove all live sport, remove the highlights, the news channel, social media accounts and within weeks people will be begging him to return.

BBC, ITV and C4 are not interested in sport, they would rather put money into reality TV ****** and pay the likes of Jonathan Ross obscene amounts of money. BBC have also given up on the Olympics from 2022, it's gone to Discovery, Boxing the other night was on Dave. 

Football is huge and will only get bigger and better.

[LesterRam]

1 hour ago, David said:

Football will never implode, will never never never ever ever. No way Pedro.

Football has changed, it's more expensive to watch, true, it's also more expensive to smoke, drink, eat, put fuel in your car. That's life. 

For all the hate Murdoch get's he has made football more accessible and increased audiences worldwide. You would never have been able to watch the likes of Barca, Bayern, Dortmund etc. in the league before. I can sit in Grimsby and watch the goals a few minutes after they go in during midweek games, Saturday I have highlights within the hour. If we go up, a couple hours after we will have the red button to watch extended highlights of each game.  

Football wasn't invented in 92, Murdoch's a tosser, take me back to the days where I could only read about the goals in the Green blah blah, yet everyone still makes the most of his content, looking for streams because the demand is there and people love it.

Take Sky Sports away now, remove all live sport, remove the highlights, the news channel, social media accounts and within weeks people will be begging him to return.

BBC, ITV and C4 are not interested in sport, they would rather put money into reality TV ****** and pay the likes of Jonathan Ross obscene amounts of money. BBC have also given up on the Olympics from 2022, it's gone to Discovery, Boxing the other night was on Dave. 

Football is huge and will only get bigger and better.

I was with you brother, until I read the last line?

[GreenwichRam]

16 hours ago, jagerbob said:

I stand by what i said about the modern fan, having listened to the moan in tonight.

You can always count on rams fans to give is the whole "we deserve better, cos we have the biggest crowds" etc etc.

I can see us turning into Newcastle doomed to be never be successful because of unrealistic ambitions of the fans.

It really wasnt that long ago to the dark days of Clough Jnr, Paul Jewell and Phil Brown, seems most rams fans seem to have fogotton this given the doom and total disaster which a 3rd promotion campaign in a row brings.

'Dark days' of Clough Jnr? Wow- his name doesn't even warrant mentioning in the same breath as Paul Jewell and Phil Brown. 

Clough was unspectacular but did a good job. The other two were absolutely disastrous. 

[Alph]

7 hours ago, G STAR RAM said:

So just to be clear, do you like the pundits or not? Stop sitting in the fence all of the time, you'll get a splinter in your arse.

Gabby Logan is alright

[bcnram]

6 hours ago, David said:

Football will never implode, will never never never ever ever. No way Pedro.

Football has changed, it's more expensive to watch, true, it's also more expensive to smoke, drink, eat, put fuel in your car. That's life. 

For all the hate Murdoch get's he has made football more accessible and increased audiences worldwide. You would never have been able to watch the likes of Barca, Bayern, Dortmund etc. in the league before. I can sit in Grimsby and watch the goals a few minutes after they go in during midweek games, Saturday I have highlights within the hour. If we go up, a couple hours after we will have the red button to watch extended highlights of each game.  

Football wasn't invented in 92, Murdoch's a tosser, take me back to the days where I could only read about the goals in the Green blah blah, yet everyone still makes the most of his content, looking for streams because the demand is there and people love it.

Take Sky Sports away now, remove all live sport, remove the highlights, the news channel, social media accounts and within weeks people will be begging him to return.

BBC, ITV and C4 are not interested in sport, they would rather put money into reality TV ****** and pay the likes of Jonathan Ross obscene amounts of money. BBC have also given up on the Olympics from 2022, it's gone to Discovery, Boxing the other night was on Dave. 

Football is huge and will only get bigger and better.

The full stadiums seem to suggest that there is more than a grain of truth in what you say!! I have no problem with the time of games being changed by Sky, so long as they and the club remember to mention to me the new time beforehand.

[RadioactiveWaste]

Joey Barton.

[JoetheRam]

8 hours ago, David said:

Football will never implode, will never never never ever ever. No way Pedro.

Football has changed, it's more expensive to watch, true, it's also more expensive to smoke, drink, eat, put fuel in your car. That's life. 

For all the hate Murdoch get's he has made football more accessible and increased audiences worldwide. You would never have been able to watch the likes of Barca, Bayern, Dortmund etc. in the league before. I can sit in Grimsby and watch the goals a few minutes after they go in during midweek games, Saturday I have highlights within the hour. If we go up, a couple hours after we will have the red button to watch extended highlights of each game.  

Football wasn't invented in 92, Murdoch's a tosser, take me back to the days where I could only read about the goals in the Green blah blah, yet everyone still makes the most of his content, looking for streams because the demand is there and people love it.

Take Sky Sports away now, remove all live sport, remove the highlights, the news channel, social media accounts and within weeks people will be begging him to return.

BBC, ITV and C4 are not interested in sport, they would rather put money into reality TV ****** and pay the likes of Jonathan Ross obscene amounts of money. BBC have also given up on the Olympics from 2022, it's gone to Discovery, Boxing the other night was on Dave. 

Football is huge and will only get bigger and better.

If only I could dislike this post.

Sky has made football more accessible has it? What about making changes to kick off times and dates 3 weeks in advance. What about scheduling Brighton to play Middlesbrough at 12:00 on a Sunday afternoon. What about the hyper inflation of players wages due to their massive financial input, causing clubs in the lower leagues to ramp ticket prices up ten fold in a bid to keep up and stay afloat, which in turn has priced out a lot of supporters from attending games at their local clubs. They've given rise to nearly everything that is wrong with football and yet we should praise them because we can now watch Bayern Munich or Barcelona every other day of the week? Give over.

Football was largely about getting behind your local side, having someone to represent 'you' every Saturday, not following the fortunes of the latest batch of multi millionaire dick heads from a country, nevermind a city that you have never even set foot in.

I don't blame Sky though (I do really) but, they are just living every militant capitalist/Tories wet dream and making mega money off the backs of the proles that continue to struggle each month for the £60 or whatever it is for a subscription. More fool those who continue to line the pockets of the utter c**t that is Rupert Murdoch. I hope they're happy with their contribution to the downfall of football as a working class pursuit.

I know all that sounds massively backward looking and socialist but some things just should not have been allowed to happen.

[Pearl Ram]

    

Three players off the top of my head that would be greats in today's game. What do they all have in common ?

You'd never ever, ever catch them getting off the team coach wearing ******' headphones. 

[Gladys' Handbag]

11 hours ago, G STAR RAM said:

So just to be clear, do you like the pundits or not? Stop sitting in the fence all of the time, you'll get a splinter in your arse.

 

3 hours ago, Alpha said:

Gabby Logan is alright

The worst job I ever had was removing splinters from Gabby Logan's arse.

[TheDeadlySaul]

11 minutes ago, EastHertsRam said:

Three players off the top of my head that would be greats in today's game. What do they all have in common ?

You'd never ever, ever catch them getting off the team coach wearing ******' headphones. 

because the biggest problem in the modern game is footballers listening to music on long bus journeys...

[Pearl Ram]

5 minutes ago, TheDeadlySaul said:

because the biggest problem in the modern game is footballers listening to music on long bus journeys...

Well it indicates to me they don't want you interact with kids waiting for autographs, have a quick word with, in the grand scheme of things it might not mean much to you save for the opportunity to give a smart arse reply and look clever on a football forum but to me it's a big deal, ordinary footballers that will never be remembered in 30 years time thinking they are the dogs b0ll0cks when in actual fact they are symptomatic of today's a lot of today's players in thinking they are god's gift to the sport. 

[Rev]

42 minutes ago, JoetheRam said:

 

Football was largely about getting behind your local side, having someone to represent 'you' every Saturday.

Still is, apart from the teams consistently at the top of the game, who've always had their share of glory hunters. 

 I hope they're happy with their contribution to the downfall of football as a working class pursuit.

I've never looked around me, home or away, and felt I'm not comfortable in this environment because the toffs have taken over.

Football is still the preserve of the working class, if such a thing exists nowadays.

I know all that sounds massively backward looking and socialist but some things just should not have been allowed to happen.

I'd say football's now more accessible to the masses than ever before, if you really don't want to line the pockets of Murdoch and Co then there are plenty of streams available for most matches.

 

[TheDeadlySaul]

29 minutes ago, EastHertsRam said:

Well it indicates to me they don't want you interact with kids waiting for autographs, have a quick word with, in the grand scheme of things it might not mean much to you save for the opportunity to give a smart arse reply and look clever on a football forum but to me it's a big deal, ordinary footballers that will never be remembered in 30 years time thinking they are the dogs b0ll0cks when in actual fact they are symptomatic of today's a lot of today's players in thinking they are god's gift to the sport. 

It isn't great when players ignore fans, but it is there choice and I still don't see how that is a problem that has been created from the modern game.

[Pearl Ram]

Ok

[Day]

1 hour ago, JoetheRam said:

If only I could dislike this post.

Sky has made football more accessible has it? What about making changes to kick off times and dates 3 weeks in advance. What about scheduling Brighton to play Middlesbrough at 12:00 on a Sunday afternoon. What about the hyper inflation of players wages due to their massive financial input, causing clubs in the lower leagues to ramp ticket prices up ten fold in a bid to keep up and stay afloat, which in turn has priced out a lot of supporters from attending games at their local clubs. They've given rise to nearly everything that is wrong with football and yet we should praise them because we can now watch Bayern Munich or Barcelona every other day of the week? Give over.

Football was largely about getting behind your local side, having someone to represent 'you' every Saturday, not following the fortunes of the latest batch of multi millionaire dick heads from a country, nevermind a city that you have never even set foot in.

I don't blame Sky though (I do really) but, they are just living every militant capitalist/Tories wet dream and making mega money off the backs of the proles that continue to struggle each month for the £60 or whatever it is for a subscription. More fool those who continue to line the pockets of the utter c**t that is Rupert Murdoch. I hope they're happy with their contribution to the downfall of football as a working class pursuit.

I know all that sounds massively backward looking and socialist but some things just should not have been allowed to happen.

Just out of interest, have you ever

a) Watched a game on Sky Sports

b) Watched a game via a stream

c) Watched SSN

d) Followed Sky Sports on social media

e) Watched highlights through the Sky Sports website

If not, fair play, we'll have to agree to disagree. My only annoyance comes from those that claim to be AMF then use the full Sky Sports services.

If you're against something you don't use it full stop.

[Alph]

2 hours ago, Gladys' Handbag said:

 

The worst job I ever had was removing splinters from Gabby Logan's arse.

Sounds like a decent job tbf. 

 

[MuespachRam]

Sky sports has made the rich clubs richer and the poor clubs reliant on some mental case ago supports them dropping a cool 50 million into them to survive. 

Leicester have smashed up all the rule books this year, it was a crazy year etc etc....was it really..apart from the foxes every major European league and cup was won by exactly who you would have predicted before a ball was kicked this season....everywhere from skirt wearing country to Italy, Getmany, Holland, France, Spain, Portugal....it has been a rubbish season, because all the clubs are so so so rich...untouchables. 

[Day]

8 hours ago, MuespachRam said:

 Sky sports has made the rich clubs richer and the poor clubs reliant on some mental case ago supports them dropping a cool 50 million into them to survive. 

Leicester have smashed up all the rule books this year, it was a crazy year etc etc....was it really..apart from the foxes every major European league and cup was won by exactly who you would have predicted before a ball was kicked this season....everywhere from skirt wearing country to Italy, Getmany, Holland, France, Spain, Portugal....it has been a rubbish season, because all the clubs are so so so rich...untouchables. 

If you could have called it why not have a bet? Only 2 points separated PSV and Ajax, 2 clubs that have pretty much dominated the Eriedivise since the 60's, long before Sky Sports.

La Liga was also tight, not my favourite league but 3pts separating 3 clubs. Again, the same clubs that have dominated since the 60's.

It's not like Sky have come in and made them untouchable, they were untouchable before. 

Man City, Chelsea, PSG were creations of billionaires pumping money in, would that have happened without Sky's money? Possibly not but you have to question why these clubs decided to throw obscene money at players. 

Do you blame your boss at work for any of your purchases? Don't blame Sky for the clubs silliness to try and buy success which has had a knock on effect down. 

And Moosepack, as an immigrant in Florida, you should be very grateful of old Rupert's input.